We arrived at Ft Meade Thursday to find the base is very small. While driving to our site we saw these two ground hogs or what every they were just sitting next to the road. Not afraid of people or cars.
John worked back in 1973-1978 downtown DC with the Department of the Army as a Club Management Specialist, responsible for making unprofitable clubs profitable. This was his building on Independence Rd. right across the street from the Air and Space Building.
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My father and mother are both buried in Arlington National Cemetery so we were given passes to go into the Cemetery. Only buses and family members are allowed to drive inside. While there at the Cemetery we went to see some of the different memorials. This is the USS Maine. Click on the first picture and it tells you what the other pictures represent.
The Memorial for the Space programs are below
Walked across the street and saw the Tomb of the Unknown Solider and the changing of the guards - a very memorable experience.
Driving back we were able to get some shots of famous memorials. The one with the spires is the Air Force Memorial.
We left DC and spent the next 45 Min's in bottle neck traffic and only went 1 1/2 miles. We were planning to go to Annapolis but forget it. It was going to take us an hour to get there and we had already spent 1 1/2 hr in traffic so we scrapped that trip. We leave here Sunday so we are just lazying away the day today.
We saw the changing of the guard also, and thought it was very moving, very nice! Cathy and I didn't drive in the DC area at all, we took the subway and then walked everywhere we went...the subway is a much better way of getting around.
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